Penn’s Outdoors

Talk about some trophy fishing…

A man has been arrested after allegedly fishing some bottles out of an Abbotsford, B.C., liquor store.

Police were called to a Liquor Barn just before 4 a.m. Monday by a security guard who spotted what he thought was a stick poking out of the ceiling tiles.

The stick had a wire attached, allowing somebody in the ceiling to fish for bottles on the floor below.

“It looks like a piece of two by four with a coat hanger attached to the end and fashioned into a loop,” said Sgt. Mike Powell.

Police caught and arrested the suspect outside the store climbing down from the roof with the makeshift fishing pole and his catch of four bottles of liquor.

They alleged he had climbed in through a hole in the roof to reach the false ceiling of the store.